To An Athlete Dying Young Poem

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ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN
Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry.
Modernism is a literary movement which associates with the scientific and the artistic changes and it rejected romantic ideas. The modern period was a complexity and transition time, mostly by virtue of the result of people returning from World War I. A deliberation about modernism that, it begin in the Renaissance period when we first chance on secular humanism. Modernist
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The poem represent feelings the speaker about dying young athlete and the speaker’s dramatically monologue. The poem set in a town in England and the poem composed seven stanzas.
In the first stanza, this stanza is the happy part of the poem. The speaker represent that, after the won race of young athlete for his town, townspeople carried him on their shoulders to his home.
In the second stanza, there are perfect contrast victory in the first stanza. The speaker tells that, the athlete again carried on shoulder-high of townspeople to home, this time ‘home’ refers eternity or final resting place with the sentences ‘the road all runners come’.
Third stanza, the speaker contend that the athlete was smart to die. Also the poet used the laurel, which is a plant and symbol of victory and he says that the laurels fade quickly than roses, which sentences represents that, the townspeople would forget his victory after his death. Also laurel related with Greek

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